Published on 03/08/2026 – 9:29 GMT+2 What a summer Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jon Bernthal are having… ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT The new Spider-Man film, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, has brought in an astonishing $927 million in global ticket sales, making it the second-biggest opening weekend ever. Tom Holland’s fourth outing as Marvel favourite Peter Parker /…
Rafael’s relationship with Germany is built on more than 30 years of defense cooperation across multiple domains. That history includes: EuroSpike, a joint venture with Diehl Defence and Rheinmetall to produce Spike missiles; EuroTrophy, a joint venture with KNDS and General Dynamics European Land Systems to provide the Trophy active protection system; and now the…
The US military campaign to protect merchant shipping from Iranian attacks by asserting direct maritime control in the strait of Hormuz is not an idea unique to Donald Trump’s administration. Almost exactly 200 years ago, in the period 1825-27, a powerful US naval squadron led by Commodore John Rodgers was sent to the Mediterranean to…
FARNBOROUGH — Throughout the week, the trilateral Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) dominated chatter in the show halls, aircraft display areas and high-level briefings. Since the death of the rival European Future Combat Air System (FCAS) project last month, GCAP is the only international sixth-gen fighter game in town — not including America’s unilateral F-47…
Yemen’s Houthi fighters claim to have attacked shipping in the Red Sea – a move that threatens to further escalate the already volatile situation in the Middle East. By forcing ships to turn back from the narrow Bab El Mandeb strait, they have threatened to choke off the main maritime route from Europe to Asia….
In this edition of the Middle East Defense Digest, Breaking Defense Middle East Bureau Chief Agnes Helou catches you up on some of the biggest developments in the region — literally in the case of Egypt’s new and quite large military facilities. There are also takeaways for Turkey from the annual NATO summit, which was…
WASHINGTON — Hours after throwing some stinging jabs towards NATO members, President Donald Trump ended his trip to Ankara today with what appeared to be a more upbeat attitude toward the alliance and toward Ukraine, which he said could soon be allowed to produce their own Patriot air defense systems. “I just want to say…
The Vatican has released the framework for a fall meeting with the heads of Eastern Catholic Churches and presidents of bishops’ conferences, marking the 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia and focusing on the Church’s pastoral approach to families. Pope Francis’ issued his post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the pastoral care of families. It was published after the 2014 and 2015 Synods on…
It also said two Bolivian child victims who were forced to work in a grocery store were rescued by Argentinian police, with arrests made. Separately, Belgian authorities arrested 17 suspects after dismantling a trafficking network that allegedly held victims recruited via social media captive, and forced them into prostitution rings across Belgium and France. The…
Laura Jackson is set to return as host of CNN‘s global culture show “Seasons” for four new episodes. The British TV broadcaster and entrepreneur — who joined the show last year for its second instalment — will one again explore shifting trends shaping global culture across fashion, travel, food, technology, design and art. Jackson previously hosted an episode…
